Reconstruction:Proto-Georgian-Zan/lʿagzal-

This Proto-Georgian-Zan entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Georgian-Zan

Alternative reconstructions

• *(s)a-gz-al- (Klimov)

Etymology

From *lʿa- +‎ *gza- +‎ *-al.

Noun

*lʿa-gz-al- (Fähnrich–Sarǯvelaʒe)

1. victual, provision

Descendants

• Old Georgian: საგზალი (sagzali)
• Zan:
  • Mingrelian: ორზოლი (orzoli) (← *ოგზოლი (*ogzoli))

References

• Klimov, G. A. (1998) “*gza-, *(s)a-gz-al-”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pages 30, 173–174
• Penrixi (Fähnrich), Hainc, Sarǯvelaʒe, Zurab (2000) Kartvelur enata eṭimologiuri leksiḳoni [Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages] (in Georgian), 2nd edition, Tbilisi: Tbilisi Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani State University Press, pages 144–145
• Fähnrich, Heinz (2007) Kartwelisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch [Kartvelian Etymological Dictionary] (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.18) (in German), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 106–107
• Čuxua, Merab (2000–2003) Kartvelur ena-ḳilota šedarebiti leksiḳoni [The Kartvelian Comparative Dictionary] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Universali, pages 104–105

Further reading

• Rogava, Giorgi (1949) “Kartvelur enata bgeratšesaṭq̇visobidan – megr. r : kart. g [From sound correspondences in Kartvelian languages – Mingrelian r : Georgian g]”, in Sakartvelos ssr mecnierebata aḳademiis moambe (in Georgian), volume X, number VIII, Tbilisi, pages 503–507